On Feb. 26, Arms Control Today will release a special “Looking Back” essay “No Promised Land: the Shared Legacy of the Castle Bravo Nuclear Test,” by April Brown, co-founder and executive director of the Marshallese Educational Initiative.

Also on Feb. 26, at 12:30-2:00 p.m., Karipbek Kuyukov, of the ATOM Project and Amb. Roman Vassilenko of Kazakhstan will speak on “Towards a World Without Nuclear Weapons Testing” at the George Washington University’s Funger Hall, Room 209, 2201 G St., NW, Washington. RSVP online.

NATO defense ministers will meet in Brussels this week to discuss a range of issues. Officials at NATO headquarters and in key capitals continue to try to work out a common strategy for seeking arrangements with Russia to address NATO’s remaining tactical nuclear weapons in Europe and Russia’s own weapons. For more background, see: “Trapped: NATO, Russia and the Problem of Tactical Nuclear Weapons,” by Oliver Meier and Simon Lunn in the Jan./Feb. issue of Arms Control Today.

Feb. 25-27: G8 Global Partnership Working Group Meets in St. Petersburg

The G8 Global Partnership is a multinational, multi-year initiative to address the threat posed by nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological materials and expertise and the potential for their acquisition by terrorist groups seeking to launch mass-casualty attacks.

Diplomats from the 27 participating states will meet this week under the chairmanship of the Russian Federation for the first of three workshops this to coordinate their national and international counter-WMD programs. For further information, see “The Global Partnership on WMD: A Work In Progress” by Alan Heyes in Arms Control Today, April 2013.

Week of Feb. 24: Expert Level P5+1 Talks with Iran In Vienna

Experts from the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and Iran will followup the latest round of political talks on Iran’s nuclear program this week in Vienna. See: Feb. 17 U.S. State Department “Background Briefing on P5+1 Talks with Iran.”